2023
Abitare la Vacanza [Holiday Living]
Architecture Festival supported by Italian Ministry of Culture.
Petites Folies, Colletta
School of Architecture.
Gordon Matta-Clark: The Hole Architecture
Book about the research of the arstist Gordon Matta-Clark.
Bruno Zevi Prize for the Promotion of Architectural Culture
plug_in receives the award from Inarch Liguria section, dedicated to the great architectural historian Bruno Zevi, in recognition of its twenty years of commitment.
2022
Piano progetto per Genova [Piano project for Genoa] Genoa, Bagnara Showroom, exhibition and book on the redevelopment of the old port of Genoa designed by Renzo Piano.
2021
Petites Folies, Garessio
School of Architecture.
2020
Exhibition Giancarlo De Carlo and Liguria
Traveling exhibition on the italian architect Giancarlo De Carlo.
Giancarlo De Carlo: l’architetto di Urbino [Giancarlo De Carlo: The Architect of Urbino] Book about the architectures of Giancarlo De Carlo.
2019
Paolo Soleri: da Torino al deserto (Centrale Lavazza, Torino) [Paolo Soleri: from Turin to the Desert] Exhibition for the centennial of the Italian architect Paolo Soleri.
2018
Nasagonando art project: Una parola sul bosco [A Word on the Forest] A plug_in project curated by Emanuele Piccardo, is realized within the framework of the ‘Artist Residencies’ call by the CRC Foundation, with the support of the Municipality of Ormea. The invited artist is Stefano Boccalini. The project will be presented in spring 2019.
2017
Nasagonando art project
A plug_in project curated by Emanuele Piccardo, is realized within the framework of the ‘Artist Residencies’ call by the CRC Foundation, with the support of the Municipality of Ormea.
2015
Production of the short film ‘The Architect of Urbino’ about the figure of architect Giancarlo De Carlo
It has participated in the AFFR (Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam), Milano Design Film Festival, Conversazioni in video. The short film won the Special Prize Ceramiche Appia Nuova at the Conversazioni in video festival.
The Italian stops of the exhibition “Beyond Environment”
Curated by Emanuele Piccardo and Amit Wolf, produced by Woodbury University and winner of the grant from the Graham Foundation in 2013. The theme of the exhibition is the relationship between art, architecture, and nature between Italy and the USA in the 1970s. Works by Gianni Pettena, UFO, Ugo La Pietra, 9999, Gruppo Strum, Allan Kaprow, Robert Smithson, Gordon Matta-Clark. In Italy, it was exhibited at Casa Masaccio in San Giovanni Valdarno and at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lissone.
2014
Beyond Environment, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibition
2013
Organizes, in collaboration with the Turin Architecture Foundation and the architectural group altro_studio, the workshop ‘Architectures for the Catastrophe.’ The outcome of the workshop is the realization of a prototype of a housing unit for post-catastrophe scenarios built with anti-seismic and energy sustainability systems, low cost, and easy assembly. ‘Architectures for the Catastrophe’ is presented within Architettura in città by Fondazione OAT with a public conversation on the earthquake in Emilia.
2012
Produces the documentary ‘FANGO’ on the flood in the Cinque Terre, directed by Emanuele Piccardo, with the support of the Consiglio Nazionale Architetti PPC and the Ordine Architetti PPC di Genova. The documentary wins the Award of Excellence in the Short Documentary category at the Los Angeles Movie Award 2012.
Organizes the exhibition ‘Radical City’ (May 30-June 30, 2012), curated by Emanuele Piccardo, on the theories and research carried out by Italian radical architecture, active from 1963 to 1973, which identified the city and public spaces as spaces for testing these experiments. Produced by the Fondazione Ordine Architetti PPC di Torino, as part of the Festival Architettura in Città, it represents an attempt to transfigure the contents of Archphoto 2.0 into an exhibition, hosted in the halls of the Archivio di Stato in Turin.
2011
plug_in founds a new thematic editorial series: archphoto 2.0. This new adventure aims to strengthen the critical thinking already expressed in the web form of Archphoto.it, which will remain and will be supplemented by the new contents of the print magazine. archphoto 2.0 constitutes a space dedicated to theoretical thinking on themes related to architecture and society, approached with a multifaceted perspective through disciplines that are complementary to architecture: contemporary art, anthropology, sociology, photography, cinema, literature, music, design.
2010
Production and coordination of the documentary film project ‘Lettera22’ on the figure of Adriano Olivetti, and won the XXIX Asolo Art Film Festival.
2009
Publish the fourth volume on the research of Brunetto De Batté and Giovanna Santinolli “Utopia&Comunità. Antologia” on the theme of utopian communities, from the sixties (hippies) to co-housing.
Publish the first book with an attached DVD in innovative packaging, thanks to collaboration with Artiva Design, on Emanuele Piccardo’s research on radical architecture “Dopo la rivoluzione. Azioni e protagonisti dell’architettura radicale italiana 1963-1973” [After the Revolution. Actions and Protagonists of Italian Radical Architecture 1963-1973].
Organize the second edition of “Landscape Lessons. A Dialogue between Art and Architecture,” this time in the form of a workshop open to students and graduates, led by artist Stefano Boccalini and architect Mario Galvagni. Boccalini works with students on the theme of mountain colonies in the province of Genoa, exploring a sensory and visual reappropriation of the place, while Galvagni operates in the Renesso colony reflecting on new possible architectures based on the existing, understood both as a geo-morphological and architectural context.
Publish the third volume of the editorial series “Lezioni di paesaggio” [Landscape Lessons], which collects contributions from the homonymous cultural project held the previous year.
2008
Organize and produce the project “Lezioni di paesaggio” [Landscape Lessons], a reflection on the definition of the term “landscape.” 50 invited authors, 6 meetings, 7 site-specific installations, 1 exhibition—these are the numbers of “Lezioni di paesaggio” held within the spaces of the former fascist colony of Renesso in the territory of Savignone, in the Genoese hinterland.
Organize the photographic exhibition “Soleritown. Visione di un’utopia concreta” [Soleritown. Vision of a Concrete Utopia] featuring photographs by Emanuele Piccardo and Filippo Romano, at Casartarc in Settimo Torinese (To).
Publish the second volume of the editorial series “dissertare/disertare” curated by Gaia Cianfanelli and Caterina Iaquinta—a mapping of contemporary art in Italy through the experience of cultural associations and independent curators, the result of the homonymous exhibition held in July ’06 at the International Art Center of Genazzano (Rome).
2007
Design and coordinate the cultural project “Soleritown,” with the support of the Province of Turin, Department of Culture, the Order of Architects PPC of Turin, and the Foundation Order of Architects PPC Turin, with the aim of constructing a new visual iconography of the American works of architect Paolo Soleri through photography
Become the publisher of a series aimed at collecting and archiving topics related to architecture and the visual arts to disseminate contemporary thought.
Organize, with Archphoto.it, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Villa Croce in Genoa, in collaboration with the Ligurian Academy, the “RADAR” series of meetings on the relationship between art and architecture, with invited guests including altro_studio, Fabrizio Basso, Boris Bakal, Lapo Binazzi/UFO, Patrizia Bonifazio, Silvia Cini, Maria Giuseppina Grasso Cannizzo, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Luciana Rogozinski
Organize, with Archphoto.it and in collaboration with Villemizerolab (a movement of ideas for better movement), the Municipality of Rome, Municipality XIII, as part of the project “Architectural Needs: a political project for the city,” the initiative “Ostia walk in modern architecture.”
2006
Organize, through the magazine Archphoto.it and together with the Civic Library Poletti in Modena, the conference “Periphery, Imaginary of the City” with participants Agostino Petrillo (sociologist) and Franco Farinelli (geographer).
Oversee the project “Radically Shake the City,” aimed at rethinking the Ina-Casa Mura degli Angeli neighborhood in Genoa with the fundamental contribution of visual arts, by inviting artists Fabrizio Basso, Silvia Cini, and Simonetta Fadda to engage with the neighborhood and its residents; contemporary artwork emerges from the “reading” of the place.
Exhibit the project “Radically Shake the City” in the contemporary art exhibition “Dissertare/Disertare” curated by the Start Association at the International Center of Contemporary Art in Genazzano (Rome).
Organize in Genoa, together with the Genoese Culture Lab and the Wolfsoniana, as part of the project “Architectural Needs: a political project for the city,” the event “walk in the architecture of your city,” an initiative to raise awareness of the city with the aim of spreading architectural culture.
2005
Organize in Rome, at “Volume! contemporary art space,” the thematic architecture meeting series “Alza il Volume” based on interviews with protagonists of Italian and international architectural and artistic culture. Invited guests: Matteo Agnoletto, Fabio Tarzia, Cristiano Toraldo di Francia, Lapo Binazzi, altro_studio, HOV, Susan Collins, Giovanni D’Ambrosio, Guido Guidi, tamassociati, Kristin Jones.
Organizes the exhibition “Mediterraneo capovolto. Places and Images of the Contemporary” as part of the “Biennale del Paesaggio mediterraneo” in Pescara, organized by ACMA – Center for Architecture and the Province of Pescara.
Organizes the research “Architectural Needs,” aiming to make the quality of architecture a widespread prerogative and an irreplaceable need for contemporary society by involving all actors in civil society: citizens, politicians, public administrators, entrepreneurs, media.
2004
Coordinate, in Genoa, the project “Pic-nic at Biscione,” an event for and with the residents of the Ina-casa residential neighborhood designed by L. C. Daneri in 1956 and called “Biscione,” on the occasion of participating in the exhibition “empowerment/cantiere italia” curated by Marco Scotini. The project is part of a broader framework of interventions in the public housing neighborhoods of the Genoese reality that began in 2002.